Home Office

Cybercrime: Security

Nick Thomas-Symonds: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent annually on cyber security (a) before and (b) after the publication of the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review 2015.

Mr Ben Wallace: Cyber Security policy and funding priorities are set out in the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016. This strategy was accompanied by a commitment to spend £1.9bn over the 5 years 2016-2021 on cyber security; This is in addition to routine spend on cyber capabilities across Government.

Police Pursuits: Dangerous Driving

Liz Saville Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been charged with careless or dangerous driving while pursuing suspects by vehicle in each of the last 10 years.

Mr Nick Hurd: The Home Office does not hold the information being requested. The Home Office does not receive information on police officers pursuing suspects by vehicles or on the associated charges.

Unexplained Wealth Orders: Disclosure of Information

Catherine West: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the proportion of cases involving unexplained wealth orders that have had reporting restrictions applied to them.

Mr Ben Wallace: I am not aware of any reporting restrictions in relation to the three current unexplained wealth orders.

Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Females

Imran Hussain: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Female Offender Strategy, published by his Department on 28 June 2018, how his Department plans to fund the five women’s residential centre pilots announced in that strategy.

Imran Hussain: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Female Offender Strategy, published by his Department on 28 June 2018, how much funding has been allocated for the five women’s residential centre pilots announced in that strategy.

Imran Hussain: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women’s residential centres were in operation in each year since 2007.

Edward Argar: Our vision for the ‘residential women’s centres’ pilot is the provision of an intensive residential support package in the community for women at risk of, or having served, short custodial sentences. The intention is to divert them from custody where appropriate and support them to address the underlying causes of their offending behaviour. We are not aware of any past or existing provision that fully accords with this, but there are several similar small-scale models such as Willowdene Farm, Anawim and Threshold Housing First. Therefore, we are unable to provide any information about how many women’s residential centres were in operation in each year since 2007. We want to ensure that any model taken forward as part of the pilot is sustainable, credible and appropriate for the local context of each site. That is why we will be working with local and national partners to develop the pilot and, as part of our process of engagement, we will be exploring different funding models.